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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 438, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1996, 6:44 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 1996, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Trego County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:58 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Collyer, KS | |
| Aug 14, 6:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 87 | Collyer, KS | |
| Aug 14, 7:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Collyer, KS | |
| Aug 14, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Collyer, KS | |
| Aug 14, 7:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Collyer, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 640 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -402 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 142345 SVRDDC KSC195-150015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 644 PM CDT WED AUG 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN TREGO COUNTY AT 644 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF WAKEENEY...OR NEAR COLLYER...MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE OVER OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS TO 70 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM SHOULD MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IN ADDITION...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LEE/KRUSE
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 14, 3:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 3:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 325 PM CDT WED AUG 14 1996 ...SHORT TERM... TSRA MOVING INTO N ZONES ASSOCIATED WITH S/W. TSRA DEVELOPED EARLY THIS MORNING OVER EASTERN WY AND HAS MOVEE SOUTHEAST ALONG THE EDGE OF CAP. WITH THE ADVANCING S/W...SHOULD SEE CAP ERODE AND MORE TSRA DEVELOP OVER/INTO CENTRAL AND WESTERN ZONES...NEAR SFC-850 MOIST AXIS. PROBLEM WILL BE DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF SVR WX. WILL CEDRTAINLY MENTION POSSIBILITY IN TONIGHT'S ZONES AS WE WILL HAVE CAPES ABOVE 3000 J/KG. STRMS MAY BE SLOW MOVING SO FLASH FLOODING WILL BE SOMETHING WE'LL WATCH FOR. ...LONG TERM... NW FLOW IS BACK...AT LEAST FOR A WHILE. SERIES OF S/W SEEN ON WATER VAPOR ROTATING AROUND RIDGE. FIRST S/W WILL BE LOCATED OVER S CENTRAL KS THU MORNING...WITH MCS ONGOING OVER SRN PART OF STATE. MODERATLEY SHEARED WINDFIELD DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE WITH 25KT LLJ AND 30-40 AT H5 CURRENTLY SEEN ON RYD NEBRASKA PROFILER. H7 CAP SHOULD BE DEAD BY TMRW AS COLD POOL CONINUES TO ROATE AROUND HIGH. THIS LEADS TO SOME CONCERN ABOUT CONVECTION AGAIN DURING THE DAY. HOWEVER...AFTER THIS FEATURE MOVES BY AIRMASS SHOULD SHOULD BE QUITE STABLE...NEEDING MOST OF THE DAY TO RECOVER BEFORE NEXT BOUT OF CONVECTION. THU NIGHT THE NEXT SW SHOULD BE CROSSING INTO WRN NEBRASKA. NOT CONFIDENT IN MODELS HANDLING OF THIS FEATURE...AS THEY HAVE NOT DONE A GOOD JOB BEYOUND ABOUT 24 WITH TRACK OF THESE FEATURES. AS FLOW ALOFT BECOMES MORE NW DURING THE DAY...PRESSURE FALLS OCCUR WITH LEE SIDE TROF DEVELOPING. MOISTURE SHOULD POOL ALONG THIS TROF WITH SOME KIND OF LOW/TRIPLE POINT RIDING DOWN BAROLCLINIC ZONE OVERNIGHT THU...LIKELY INITIATING CONVECTION (POSSIBLY ANOTHER MCS) OVER WRN KS. CONVECTION SHOULD PUSH EAST ON FIRDAY...WITH FLOW NRLY ENOUGH TO KEEP ANYTHING THAT DEVELOPS ALONG THE ROCKIES OUT OF THE CWA. WENT CLOSE TO FWC...JUST A FEW DEGREES COOLER...EXCEPT MUCH COOLER VCNTY P28 WHERE TRW AND CLOUDS WILL INHIBIT WARMUP. DDC 063/087 063/088 064 524 GCK 063/088 063/089 064 524 EHA 060/092 061/093 062 423 LBL 063/089 064/090 064 423 HYS 060/087 062/087 062 524 P28 063/086 064/090 066 534 REITER/MCAVOY
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.